Past Special events
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- 2007-2008 Events
- Accountability and the New Governance, April 2006
- Seminar on Anti-Corruption Policy, March 2006
- Canada-US Security Cooperation, April 2005
- Information Sharing and Homeland Security March 2004
- Commentaries On The American Presidency, 2004
- Evolving Federalisms: The Intergovernmental Balance of Power in America and Europe, May 2003
- National Security and Open Government: Striking the Right Balance, May 2003
- Cross-Border Perspectives Speaker Series 2002-2003
- Governance & Public Security, January 2002
- Constructing Civic Virtue, 2002
- The Future of e-Governance
2007-2008
Tom Ricks, 2007
http://insct.syr.edu/Events_and_Lectures/thomas_ricks.htm
Christiane Arndt, 2007
Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Paul Verkuil, 2008
Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law
Public Management
Donald Moynihan, 2008
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Public Management
Alan Patten, 2008
Princeton University
"Language Rights"
Citizenship and Human Values
The Bantle Symposium, 2008
Accountability and the New Governance, April 2006
Public Ethics, Legal Accountability, and the New
Governance
Laura S. Jensen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Sheila S. Kennedy, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Privatization in the form of contracting out is often praised for its cost-effectiveness, but it poses thorny practical and theoretical problems. Is the government ethically and legally responsible for the behavior of the nongovernmental actors it employs to implement public policy? Is the very nature of public authority under challenge, and if so, what are the consequences for democratic politics and accountability? Professor Jensen will examine the legal dimensions of government accountability when public functions are contracted out, discussing specific cases to highlight the challenges of ensuring accountability in the era of ³new governance.²
Seminar on Anti-Corruption Policy, March 2006
Canada-US Security Cooperation, April 2005
The purpose of this two-day seminar is to provide an wide-ranging view of the policy challenges that arise as the United States and Canada cooperate to promote common security. The conference will include discussion of longstanding efforts at defense cooperation, and the extent to which traditional patterns of cooperation are challenged by new initiatives such as ballistic missile defense. In addition the conference will examine new efforts to collaborate in protecting the two nations against terrorist attacks, with special emphasis on mechanisms to integrate border control and intelligence agencies. The seminar will also include a broader overview of the political and economic dynamics of the US-Canada relationship, and how this affects efforts at security cooperation.
Funding for the conference is provided by the Canadian Studies Grant Program of the Canadian Embassy Washington.
Information Sharing and Homeland Security March 2004
(Video Archive)Better sharing of information -- between intelligence and law enforcement agencies; among federal, state and local governments; and between the public and private sectors -- has been called one of the main foundations of improved homeland security.
Sharing information is not easy. Often, there are bureaucratic or
technical barriers that impede information flows. There are also
difficult policy questions. For example, how will the security of
sensitive information be preserved? And how will civil liberties and
privacy rights be protected?
This seminar brings together prominent policymakers and academics to discuss the challenges of information sharing in the field of homeland security. (To learn more, see the next page.) Focused on three key topics -- information sharing in the law enforcement and intelligence communities, the protection of critical infrastructure, and the use of personal information -- the seminar will allow for active discussion by participants.
Barriers to Information Sharing Between Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies: Law, Culture and Structure
Gregory Treverton
M.E. Spike) Bowman
Elizabeth Rindskopf-Parker
Bina and Nicolai
Elmostehi and Vozzo
Information Sharing and the Private Sector: Protecting Critical Infrastructure
William Pelgrin
Maureen Helmer
Rena Steinzor
Gallagher and Neugebauer
Security or Privacy? The Sharing of Personal Information
John Poindexter
Jeffrey Rosen
Alberto and Bogatz
Juidiciani and Snyder
Commentaries On The American Presidency, 2004
To mark the 2004 presidential election, the Campbell Public Affairs Institute has asked leading experts to write short commentaries on the state of the
presidency, and contemporary presidential politics. Several commentaries will be posted on this page
throughout 2004.
The Polarized Presidential Electorate, Jeffrey Stonecash, The Maxwell School of
Syracuse University
The Press and Presidential Politics, Charlotte Grimes, The Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
The 2004 Election: A Watershed Moment, David Bennett, The Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Evolving Federalisms: The Intergovernmental Balance of Power in America and Europe, May 2003
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Sponsored by the: Maxwell European Union Center, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, The Citizenship in a Globalizing World SPIRE Committee
Federal political systems are inevitably dynamic entities. The balance of power between central institutions and states evolves as new policies (or new versions of old policies) are allocated between the levels of government. This symposium addresses the dynamics of federalism on either side of the Atlantic, tracing and comparing the intergovernmental balance of power in the United States and the European Union over time. The sessions are structured around three issue-areas which have strongly affected these dynamics in both arenas: welfare and social policies, market regulation, and the role of law and the courts.
National Security and Open Government:Striking the right balance, May 2003
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The terror attacks of September 11, 2001 have compelled a reappraisal of the balance that should be struck between the interests served by governmental openness, and the
need to protect national security -- in the United States, and many other countries as well. The eight commentaries in this book describe how governments around the world have reconciled calls
for openness and concern for the preservation of national security, and propose new ways of thinking about the tension between these two important
interests. The commentaries were written for a symposium on National Security and Open Government held in
Washington, DC in May 2003. The symposium was a joint project of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Cross-Border Perspectives Speaker Series
This speaker series provided a forum for discussing critical issues confronting policymakers in the United States and Canada. Support for the series is provided by the Canadian Consulate General, Buffalo.
February 18, 2003 - Public Service Reform in Canada: Recent Developments, David Zussman(OPED), President, Public Policy Reform & John Kamensky (OPED), Director of the Managing for Results Practice at IBM Business Consulting Services in Arlington, VA
February 20, 2003 - Human Smuggling and Trafficking: Achieving the Goals of the UN Protocols?, Louise Shelley(OPED), Professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society (School of Public Affairs) and the School of International Service at American University& Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez(OPED), Research Associate, McGill University Centre for Applied Family Studies
March 20, 2003 - Police and Soldiers in the Control of Violence, Major David Last (OPED)
April 10, 2003 - Does Private Giving Promote Economic Segregation, Al Slivinski (OPED), Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
September 26, 2002 - Healthcare in Canada and the United States: Systems in Crisis?,Antonia Maioni (OPED), Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada & Grant Reeher (OPED), Associate Professor of Political Science, The Maxwell School
October 24, 2002 - Investor Protection under NAFTA, Howard Mann (OPED)
November 21, 2002 - Privatization and Commodification of Water, Tony Clarke (OPED)
Governance & Public Security, January 2002
(Download the book in PDF)The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and subsequent events have transformed the policy agenda and put new pressures on America's public institutions. This collection of papers examines how the priorities for governmental reform has changed as a consequence of the new emphasis on public security. Contributors discuss challenges in cross-governmental coordination of policy on homeland security; aviation security and bioterror preparedness; border management and disaster response.
These papers were produced for a Symposium on Governance and Public Security held on January 18, 2002, at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. The symposium was supported by grants from the PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government and the Canadian Consulate General, Buffalo.
Constructing Civic Virtue, 2002
(Download the Book)Is our sense of civic responsibility on the wane, and if so, what can be done to
bolster it? These commentaries were prepared
for a symposium held by the
Campbell Institute in November 2002. Written by leading specialists, the commentaries address three questions:
Whether policymakers are right in diagnosing an unhealthy decline in civic responsibility;
Whether actions by government are likely to be effective in remedying the problem; and
What values or principles should be central to the conception of civic virtue that would be promoted through such policies.
The Future of e-Governance
Jane Fountain, Kennedy School of Government (Download Comments)
Don Lenihan, Centre for Collaborative Government, Ottawa (Download Comments)
Alan Rosenblatt, Stateside Associates, Arlington Virginia (Download Comments)
Grant Reeher, The Maxwell School (Download Comments)
Jill Velenosi, Deputy CIO, Government of Canada (Download Powerpoint)
Patrick Dunleavy,London School of Economics (Download Comments)
A few weeks after September 11, the Campbell Public Affairs Institute began organizing a symposium on the impact that the new emphasis on homeland security would have on American government. That event was the first of a series of annual symposia on homeland security organized by the Institute. To learn more about the books, papers and webcasts produced as part of this series, follow these links.